Can-watering machine



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A. R. MERRILL & D. L'ENNOX.

' CAN WATERINGMAGHINB.

No. 354,206. Patented Dec. 14. 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC ALBERT R. MERRELL AND DAVID LENNOX, OFMARSHALLTOVN, IOlVA.

CAN-WATERING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,206, dated December14, 1886.

Application filed December '1, 1885. Serial No. 185,025. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALBERT B. MERRELL and DAVID LENNOX, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Marshalltown, county of Marshall, and Stateof Iowa, have invented a new and useful Can WVatering Machine, of whichthe following is a specification.

Our invention relates to machines for canning fruits and vegetables, andis an improvement upon the machine for which a patent was granted toAlbert Merrell, February 24, 1885, Serial N 0. 312,648. 7

It is customary to place a certain quantity of water or other liquid inthe can before the fruit or vegetable is introduced. The object of ourinvention is to accomplish this result.

Our machine consists,- essentially, of atable, apipe to supply cans, aforce-pump of ordinary construction, and a cross-head or plungeroperated from the same shaft, and so adjusted as to push the canssuccessively under the forcepump at the moment of its discharge,together with suitable devices for communicating and regulating theirmotion. It differs from the machine before mentioned in the constructionand operation of the force-pump and plunger and in the devices forcommunicating and regulating motion, it having been found preferable todispense with standards at the end of the table for the operation of theforce-pump, to change somewhat the construction of the pump and plunger,and to operate both horizontally by cranks or eccentrics, or both, froma shaft supported on the table.

The construction of our machine is fully shown bythe accompanyingdrawings,in which Figure 1 is a top view. Fig. 2 is a top view of theeccentric and pump rods, showing their connection and the means ofadjusting them. Fig. 3 is a View of the U-shaped Washer used to regulatethe stroke. Fig. 4 is a lateral section of the pump-plunger. Fig. 5 is asection of the water-pipe, showing-the preferred arrangement of thevalves. Fig. 6 is a transverse section of the cross head used as aplunger. Fig. 7 is a side view of the machine, showing the manner ofsupplying and filling cans.

A is a table or frame-work. On it at one end are bearings supporting ashaft, B, which is rotated by the pulleys O 0. Inside the first bearingis an eccentric, D, and beyond the second bearing is aslotted crank, E,which extends The crank E is connected by a pitman, F, x

with arod, G, which has at its enda cross-head, H, moving preferablybetween guides or in a groove in the table A. Across the path of thecross head is erected a supply pipe, I, into which the cans are fed,forming by their weight a column whose base rests on the table in thepath of the cross-head H, the latter moving back and forth at eachrevolution of the shaftB.

Opposite to the eccentric D, and attached to the table A, is aforce-pump, M, supplied with pipes having ordinary valves, (shown inFig.5,) the supply-pipe being connected with a reservoir at a, and thedischarge being downward over the plunger-track at m. The eccentricrod Kis bayonet-shaped, and has at its end,

integral therewith, a ring, a, set out at its side, and near the middlea ring, a, similarly set out.

The pump-rod L is hinged in the pump-plunger d, (see Fig. 4,) and passesthrouglnthe rings a and a. At its end is an adj nstable annular flange,b, and outside the eccentric rod is a similar flange,b. Upon thepump-rod,between the ring a and the flange b, may be placed a U- shapedwashenc, Fig. 3,which, by diminishing the loss of motion regulates thelength of stroke, and consequently the quantity of liquid forced throughthe orifice m.

The stroke of the cross-head H may be regulated by adjusting the pitmanF in the slotted crank E.

In the operation of our machine, the flanges I) Z) are adjusted so thatthe rod K slides back and forth on the pump-rod without moving it. Froma series of U-shaped washers one of the desired length is selected andplaced upon the pump-rod between the flange b and the ring a. The pitmanFis adjusted upon the crank E and rod G, so that the cans are pushedsuccessively from under the supply-pipe I directly under the orifice ofdischarge from the force-pump m. As the strokes of the crosshead andpumprod are alternate, each can receives successively the contents ofthe discharge pipe, and is pushed on by the can following. The quantityof liquid can be changed while the machine is in operation, by merelychanging the size of the U-shaped washer.

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Ve claim as our inventionrod L, the pump M, the rings a a, theflanges 1. The combination of etable, a force-pump b b, the washer c,and the water-pipe 0, sub-. having a hinged pump-rod with two annularstantially as and for the purposes shown and flanges, abayonet-shapedeccentric-rod having described. 5 two rings for the reception of thesaid pninprod, and a U-shaped washer, as shown. EZQ g i 2. Inacan-watering machine, the combinat J L L tion of the shaft B, theeccentric D, the rod K, the crank E, thepitniztn F, the plunger-rod G,to the cross-head H, the feed-pipe I, the pump \Vitnesses:

JOHN \VORLEY, R. G. I-IARG'RAVE.

